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- Vote for Nokia as Designer of the Best Looking Smartphones (because it’s just FACT)
- Nokia’s ex-imaging Head, Damian Dinning teaches HTC the definition of “Breakthrough”
- Nokia Lumia 920 wins 2012 Engadget Awards Best Smartphone!
- Nokia’s 808 PureView still rocking the biggest sensor ever put in a smartphone
- Nokia compares Offline mapping experience on Nokia Maps and Google Maps (Nokia Lumia 920 vs SGSIII)
- Video: Nokia Wireless Charging Stand unboxing and demo with Nokia Lumia 920.
- Bill Gates does NOT say WP is a mistake; reflects solely on strategy
- Nokia Lumia 920 wins Best Smartphone Camera test, Daylight and low light (And this only gets better for Nokia at MWC :) )
- Press Release: Foxtons feels at home with Nokia Lumia
| Vote for Nokia as Designer of the Best Looking Smartphones (because it’s just FACT) Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:25 PM PST
Who has been known time and time again pushing the boundaries of design of smartphones for over a decade? Who has been winning award after award for their timelessly crafted designs? Who is the maker of the phone that made Engadget pour floods of adulation with comments such as:
DESIGN of the GODS! N9 and the fabula-design language that has been making so many head turning devices? Oh yup, that’s Nokia! You know their designs are so beautiful that others just have to copy it (and later pretend Nokia had nothing to do with it). PhoneArena asks their readers who produces the best looking smartphones, and sadly, Nokia is not the answer. But you can change that. Like you pushed for the 920 to win Engadget’s 2012 awards, I’m sure you can do this again. I mean, it’s quite a gross injustice if HTC goes ahead of Nokia on this regard. How can you crown the maker of KIRF (that either makes a fake Lumia or a fake iPhone or a fake BlackBerry?). Nokia goes out of their way to challenge the norm, and go with their own unique designs. That’s why they win awards for it. That’s why even Apple had to use Nokia as an example of a manufacturer that doesn’t go and outrageously steal other people’s designs.
Haha, I’m sure there’s still plenty of things Nokia can learn from the competition as well as learning internally how to evolve their designs. They’re not perfect but they certainly don’t deserve 3d place behind Sony or HTC. You know what to do Nokia fans. Cheers Omar-BHR for the tip! |
| Nokia’s ex-imaging Head, Damian Dinning teaches HTC the definition of “Breakthrough” Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST
Damian Dinning known by Nokians for being Nokia’s Imaging Guru and delivering us great camera smartphones like the Nokia 808 PureView has been speaking up today in the wake of the audacious claims from Potato-camera-maker HTC (who if you remember, dared to diss the 808 PureView as pretty meaningless, not even recognizing how good this is compared to the crap they serve. I am still reeling at HTC’s inconsistency there, beating up the iPhone for having the same size sensor as a previous model but not recognising how insane the sensor size is in the Nokia 808 PureView?! That’s downright deceitful! )
BTW, tweet from Steve
I’m not saying anything against the “One”. I like it actually, it’s a good effort. CopyPasta/Nokia inspirations on the go. Just quit pretending you made this all up on your own, HTC. At least recognise the market that influences you. This will be one of those times again that will demonstrate the importance of getting your message through. Why? So consumers FULLY understand their choices, and that one of their main choices should be your desirable device with that unique desirable set of features. The 808 PureView keynote was possibly one of the worst keynotes for something groundbreaking that I have ever witnessed. Everyone related to conducting that keynote should really not be at Nokia anymore. The 920 keynote wasn’t that much better with Ms Harlow droning and sucking all the enthusiasm out from the room, combined with “show and tell” 5 year old level presenting (I’m sure she’s doing a great job elsewhere but people need to be placed where they’re best, and then their best is put to use. If presenting is not your talent, do not go in front of millions and present. Simple as). Maybe I’m too harsh or maybe Nokia just needs to be much better prepared for getting the message out about their new products. It’s all well and good spending years and years of research and money and all that effort only for no one to understand what it was that your product does because a) key people responsible for the abysmal marketing deserves to be fired b) your keynotes are terrible. Adverts and keynotes are the times to get other people to repeat YOUR message verbatim, therefore you must get the message coherently, in a way that would be memorable and understandable. We can’t afford for you, Nokia, to mess up your message delivery again where people misunderstand all the work you achieve, get slated for it by angry bloggers (who btw change their mind after trying it), who’s selective choice quotes are then used against you. I’m going to try and finish my rant about this some other time. I have a draft that’s been stuck there since last year. |
| Nokia Lumia 920 wins 2012 Engadget Awards Best Smartphone! Posted: 19 Feb 2013 12:31 PM PST
Well, voting is done and the winner is the Nokia Lumia 920! Congrats! This just goes to show, not only how awesome the Nokia Lumia 920 is but also the community of fans behind it.
Cheers EasycapExpertti for the tip! |
| Nokia’s 808 PureView still rocking the biggest sensor ever put in a smartphone Posted: 19 Feb 2013 08:50 AM PST
Saw an interesting conversation Steve Litchfield was having on twitter. Apparently it appears that someone’s been claiming to have the biggest sensor in a smartphone, Steve and co have some words to say on that matter. What I’m finding more interesting is the fact that once year over when Nokia destroyed the megapixel race (by bringing out the best camera on paper and performance) some companies are starting to pay attention to other ways they can improve image QUALITY. Ultrapixel vs PureView. There’s sensor size and then there’s pixel size. It’s very neat to see pixel size as a feature. Imagine if Nokia did that. Imagine a sensor as huge as the one found in the 808 but reduced to 12MP? Someone do the math of the pixel size? Haha. Of course, that would be a trade off of over sampling. I wonder what we’ll see at MWC? P.S. someone’s obviously liking tiles on the homescreen. |
| Nokia compares Offline mapping experience on Nokia Maps and Google Maps (Nokia Lumia 920 vs SGSIII) Posted: 19 Feb 2013 07:52 AM PST
Here’s a video from Nokia comparing the offline mapping experience between Nokia Maps and Google’s maps.
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| Video: Nokia Wireless Charging Stand unboxing and demo with Nokia Lumia 920. Posted: 19 Feb 2013 03:45 AM PST
Quick heads up on this video we recorded last night of the Nokia Wireless Charging stand for our Nokia Lumia 920 (or 820 with a wireless charging backplate). Props to MobileFun for this Nokia Lumia 920 charger :) It works just like the Fatboy and the charging plate, just pop the 920 on and it’ll charge up. The difference with the charging stand is that the 920 is on an incline (hence stand :p). There’s an NFC spot at the bottom which will activate a screensaver (black screen, white text clock that also has the temperature and an icon to say it’s day or night (or is that the weather). Ideally for some it would turn on automatically (no need to go and tap the NFC thing – and then have to accept) but some might want the phone to charge but still show something else on the screen. It would be nice if there was an option where wireless charging for all Nokia wireless chargers would activate a screensaver automatically (like the touchpad and touchstone). This has replaced the fatboy as my bedside table charger as I do get to glance at the 920′s clock at night (like I could with the N8/N9 etc and their always on clock). The stand itself is solid and sturdy, matte at the front but shiny at the base and at the back. The bottom has a slightly grippy material for securing this at the desk.
Note the charging light at the bottom.
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| Bill Gates does NOT say WP is a mistake; reflects solely on strategy Posted: 19 Feb 2013 03:16 AM PST
Something I dislike is people bending the truth to suit their cause. Today there has been a story going around that Bill Gates said Windows Phone was a mistake. The wording of the interview was actually that Microsoft “didn’t get out early”, in terms of bringing a mobile OS to market that was competitive. Clearly this is Windows Mobile, which was essentially a shrunk down version of the desktop OS. The second and final thing mentioned by Gates was that the “way [they] went about it didn’t allow [them] to get leadership”. Again, this does not mention Windows Phone at all, or that it is a mistake. The same can be said for Nokia with Symbian. At the time, the OS was great, but it failed to be competitive with Apple and Google. For those who wish to see the interview, check the video below! http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505266_162-57569859/bill-gates-not-satisfied-with-microsoft-innovation/
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| Posted: 19 Feb 2013 02:13 AM PST
Of course, it won low light.
Now this isn’t just low light, it’s overall conditions. I’m finding myself super pleased with the 920′s camera as I only ever have to snap a pic (no worries about settings). I especially love pictures that would otherwise have been blurry due to camera shake but aren’t. Actually, guess who won Daylight?
Now we all know there’s going to be more PureView action at MWC. This is DEFINITELY something to be excited about. This is the product we were warned people would climb over each other to get. The 920 is awesome, but imagine what they could do with more time? I’m most surprised where Z10 came.
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| Press Release: Foxtons feels at home with Nokia Lumia Posted: 19 Feb 2013 01:55 AM PST
London, England and Espoo, Finland – Foxtons, London’s leading estate agent, has chosen the Nokia Lumia 820 as its business smartphone and has so far deployed around 900 to its employees. With 35 offices throughout London and two in Surrey, Foxtons let and sell around 1,400 properties every month. In such a fast-paced, competitive environment, the need for Foxtons agents to receive, update and share information quickly while on the road is critical to its success. An important reason for Foxtons’ switch to Nokia Lumia was its tight integration with the company’s existing Microsoft infrastructure. Foxtons uses Microsoft Outlook to ensure that employees are armed with complete property information for each calendar appointment, so that at the touch of a button they have all the material they need to close a deal. And easy synchronisation means that any appointments made at Foxtons head office can be quickly transferred to the agents’ smartphones. Between viewings, agents can check emails, make targeted calls and prepare for their next appointment, maximising their time out of the office and keeping them one step ahead of the competition. The built-in Microsoft Office applications on Windows Phone 8 mean that they can also work on Excel spreadsheets and edit Word documents whilst away from their office PCs. This competitive edge is vital for Foxtons, whose in-house development team was already familiar with developing applications in the Microsoft Windows environment and has now begun deploying its own apps for the Nokia Lumia 820. As Dan Rafferty, IT Director of Foxtons, explains: “In a fast moving business with many staff movements across departments and locations, keeping an accurate, up-to-date contact list is a challenge for us. We’ve developed an app integrating our personnel system with our active directory and phone system so all the information is accurate and can be accessed directly from our agents’ Nokia Lumia 820s. It’s a great timesaver and asset for the team. The Nokia Lumia 820 aligns with our entire device strategy and allows us to fully integrate our current Microsoft systems throughout the company.” With agents covering large areas, the mobile navigation features of the Nokia Lumia 820 were also an important factor in the switch to Lumia. Nokia Drive offers free turn-by-turn navigation with live traffic updates and offline maps, removing the need for separate satnavs or an A-Z. When showing prospective clients around a property, agents can use Nokia City Lens to show live information on the local area, showcasing points of interest and amenities including leisure centres, cinemas, restaurants and shops. Foxtons agents can now have everything they need to know about the area in the palm of their hand. Adrian Williams, director of Business Sales UK at Nokia, said: “Foxtons is a great example of how a company can empower its workforce to work effectively on the move, with their smartphones integrated with its existing Microsoft infrastructure. We are delighted that Nokia applications such as Nokia Drive and Nokia City Lens are making a real difference for Foxtons employees in the competitive real estate market.”
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